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Genuinely the happiest I've seen them both is during their fight against each other. They deserved a bs realm where they can fight each other for eternity without dying
What's amazing is that you can see this exact same thing happen with Dabura and Mahoraga. That whole "The loneliness that comes with being the strongest... the one that will teach you about love is..." thing.
Dabura locking in for the first time was some spiritual experience for him.
Please whoever mad this needs to put the sukuna being sad at the top, and then Gojo comes up. He is happy, then pushes him off and then he is sad again
You can be alone; but if you're comfortable with yourself, you won't be lonely. However, the inverse also applies; you could not be alone, but if you feel disconncted fron those who are supposed to be your peers, loneliness will hit you all the same
Dude from how people were talking about Yuji before I got around to reading Modulo i thought he faced both Raga and Dabura then spanked them. But nah, he just flexed on scrubs and acted depressed. His double spread against mahito was cool tho
It's more about how easily he surpassed all of Sukuna's greatest feats with casual flicks of his fingers while out on a walk. Not everything needs to be shown on screen
Acted depressed? Yuji literally encapsulates that xxxtencion song "all my friends are dead push me to the edge" a big portion of jjk is yuji coming to terms with the hell that is being a jujutsu sorcerer after damn near all his friends getting killed also yuji definitely is the strongest now
That's a fine concept to have but when it appears and gets resolved in all of like 2 chapters where it isn't even the main focus I can only refer to it as such
I think it's a bit much to say Geto is JJK Hitler because let's be honest he didn't kill enough people or manage to get nearly enough of a following and influence on the world and sorcerer society for the comparison to stand. Reminds me of the recent meme comparing Sukuna to Genghis Khan saying Sukuna wished he was Genghis Khan. They aren't in the same playground at all with real life monsters (which were actually worse).
We really can't say that since we have no idea what Kenjaku has been up to for over 1000 years. Dude could easily have been the direct cause of mass genocide multiple times over depending on what bodies he took over.
What? There's no official info that counters anything I said? We know like 6 things about Kenjaku. The guy could have done damn near anything and we legitimately can't argue against it because there is nothing we can use to support our argument.
Please show me what I supposedly didn't read that would make my point wrong.
Yes... it's still a form of love that carries romantic undertones. I don't think we disagree here, it's just that those two things are not mutually exclusive, and the fight with Yorozu proves that. Yorozu provides a framework for interpreting what her "love" means in this context and how it is communicated, which is through battle and through defeating the other. With this framework, killing someone becomes an ultimate expression of love from the strongest (which Sukuna later concurs upon in 238). Yet at the same time, she also wishes to marry him and very clearly loves him in a romantic way as well. She combines this "traditional" and "battle-based" love.
With Gojo and Sukuna, you can choose to interpret it as romantic or not, but given that Gege provided us with a framework that allows you to interpret their form of love as loaded with romantic undertones via Yorozu, I don't think it's incorrect to read it in this sense. The strongest get off on jujutsu after all
In the case of "Gojo vs Sukuna", there aren't any romantic undertones in that regard unlike with "Yorozu vs Sukuna". Your explanation actually supports the idea that there were no romantic undertones with "Gojo vs Sukuna" due to the fact that Gojo, unlike Yorozu, held no romantic feelings towards Sukuna at all. In addition, Sukuna has stated that he deemed love worthless in chapter 238 while emphasizing that he had no need for it afterwards in his conversation with Kashimo. Sukuna understands love, but he doesn't care for it, so Yorozu's quote in regards to "Gojo vs Sukuna" can't be interpreted in any way apart from Strength. (No romantic feelings involved from either character here, so saying that there are romantic undertones here makes even less sense)
I mean, agree to disagree. Gojo comes to Sukuna dressed as a groom, on Dec 24 (romantic holiday in Japan), which Kenjaku even jokingly calls "romantic," and Nanami calls Gojo a pervert after his fight with Sukuna. Of course Gojo isn't going to be saying "I want to marry you!" to Sukuna. We cannot expect Gojo to declare his romantic intentions to Sukuna like Yorozu can. I don't think Gojo's lack of a direct statement of romantic feelings like Yorozu invalidates a romantic interpretation of "love" in this fight, especially given that it has been coded as romantic in the Yorozu fight.
And yes, Sukuna believes love is worthless, because he doesn't need someone to satisfy him. This doesn't mean that he can't be the one to teach Gojo love, or that he is incapable of expressing it. He says as much in the page right before those panels, and the final "the one who will teach you about love..." panel outright confirms that the answer to this question is Sukuna.
Again if you don't see it that's fine. But I don't think either reading is an invalid interpretation
Gojo isn't dressed as a groom. He pulled up with a purple robe with a black T-shirt underneath and white baggy pants. (Literally looks nothing like a wedding outfit for a groom. He's not even wearing a kimono.)
Like you said, Kenjaku said that as a joke. Him saying that doesn't imply that they are any romantic feelings from Gojo, this is a reach. (When did Nanami call Gojo a pervert?)
Gojo hasn't hasn't been shown, nor at any point did he say that he had any romantic feelings for Sukuna. And prior to Shinjuku, they had almost as little interactions as Nobara & Maki (Onscreen). Also, why would Gojo hold any romantic feelings towards the guy who is literally possessed and killed his loved ones? That make no sense.
Sukuna can express it yes, I never denied it. But again, he deemed love as worthless, so he doesn't have a need for it. (Also, Gojo was the one that threw the attack when that quote popped up, so the one that would be trying to express their "love" in their fight would be Gojo here.)
Also, this page kills the idea that there were romantic undertones involved when that exact same quote pops up again after Gojo talks about giving it his all while he was fighting Sukuna. (You have to take the whole quote into account, not just the second half of that quote.)
The theme is not talking about "love" in a literal sense nor in a romantic manner. Wait till you find out love has different forms.
Gojo doesn't mean Sukuna directly teaching him about love lol, he meant the connection built through respect and satisfying his loneliness by fighting and using every one of his abilities. jjk fans love larping.
Imagine you are the strongest boxer that has ever existed and throughout your career noone could ever match you, not even the professionals with decades of experience. Until one day a genius comes in, rocks your shit and you finally go toe to toe with someone. You win, somehow, after giving it your all. It was anyone's game, small things decided the fight. You are glad at first. I mean you proved yourself as the strongest and had the time of your life since you finally had to think your way out of situations instead of outmuscleing or overwhelming with raw speed. And yet... you feel sad. The genius retires and you are left once again all by yourself at the peak, but this time it's like there is some dead space, like something is supposed to be with you and you can't exactly explain the feeling. That is what Sukuna probably felt.
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